View of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking northwest, from Barney Ford Hill (formerly called "Nigger Hill"). Snow capped Tenmile range towers behind the fledgeling town, whose buildings are in the center. New growth surrounds spindly, burned evergreens in the foreground leading up to a dry ditch, and a gnarled, dead tree on the right.

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At head of title: 516.; Formerly F20680.; Hand-lettering on back of stereocard reads: Breckenridge, Colo, looking northwest from Nigger Hill. Ten Mile Range of mountains in the distance. View taken from Upper Gold Run ditch on Nigger Hill. The R. R. line runs some 500 ft. above the point of view and about 1000 feet above the town.; Printed on front of stereocard: Photographed and published by W.H. Jackson, Denver, Colo.; Title from back of stereocard.; R7100019474

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